Research and Markets: Snapshots UK Retailing 2008 Gives an Instant Overview of the UK Retailing Market

2008-09-10 23:58:05 -

www.researchandmarkets.com - Research and Markets ( www.researchandmarkets.com/research/e8ea30/snapshots_uk_retai) has announced the addition of the "Snapshots UK Retailing 2008" report to their offering.

Snapdatas Snapshots UK Retailing 2008 provides 2007 year-end market size data, with 2008 estimates, 5 years of historical data and five-year forecasts. The Snapshots report gives an instant overview of the UK retailing market and covers food, textiles, clothing

and footwear, household goods, non-specialised retailing and other types of retailing. Market value is based on retail sales. The data is supplied in both graphical and tabular format for ease of interpretation and analysis. The Snapshots UK Retailing 2008 forms part of Snapdatas Retail industry coverage.

Snapshots Report Overview:

Executive Summary

The Executive Summary within a Snapshots report outlines the main findings of the report (market size, market shares and market forecasts)

Market size

Market size is the measure of the total value or volume of a particular product sold in a particular length of time. In our case it is the total amount of the market covered by a title in the last whole year, for example, in UK Beer 2005, all the beer consumed in the UK in 2004. The aim of the report is to tell how much of the product was consumed in the country discussed by value and by volume.

Market Segmentation

Market Segmentation is a segmentation of the market by key product categories, ideally by value and volume. For example: the yoghurt market can be segmented into: drinking yoghurt, flavoured yoghurt and natural yoghurt.

Market Share

Market Share is the share of each competitor in the market place and can be expressed in value or volume terms.

Market Share by Volume - each competitor's share of the total Market Volume

Market Share by Value - each competitor's share of the total Market Value

Distribution

This measure of the market relates to the different distribution channels to market for each product. The distribution can include the following channels

Consumer Goods example:

- Supermarket

- Hypermarket

- Discount Store

- Corner shop

- Internet

- Etc

Socio-Economic data

The key socio-economic indicators in each report will be:

Size of population

GDP - Gross Domestic Product

Inflation rate

Exchange rate

Forecasts

All market forecasts are based on statistical forecasting techniques based on historic performance (linear extrapolation of the market size, based on the five-year historical growth). These statistical tools are supplemented with qualitative parameters such as: industry expectation/opinion. Socio-economic drivers, new product development, technological advances, expected levels of market saturation etc.

Benefits of the Snapshots Reports

The Snapdata product range is designed to save time for clients by providing an industry data overview, market size, shares and forecasts; verified with full sourcing.

Easy to search, quick to access, and clear and concise to use: Snapdata reports can save 40% of resources in those early stages of a project. Sometimes just a report from the Snapshots Series is all that is required for an internal client's first request. But when the project develops, the reports also help your internal research team prepare a fuller picture for their end-users utilizing the further sources provided in each report for industry drivers and analytical information, enabling them to provide a more detailed document based on solid figures but tailored to the end-users' requests.

Key Topics Covered:

Page 3 - Snapshots Executive Summary

Page 4 - Category Definitions

Page 5 - Market Size by Value (2003-2007)

Page 6 - Market Segmentation by Value

Page 7 - Market Shares by Value

Page 8 - Company Websites (Main Players)

Page 9 - Market Forecast by Value (2008-2012)

Page 10 - Socio-Economic Data for UK

Page 11 - Snapshots Sources for Further Research

For more information visit www.researchandmarkets.com/research/e8ea30/snapshots_uk_retai

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